Books in the ASA Monographs series

Through detailed case studies covering a wide range of related issues, Ownership and Appropriation provides a new approach to this key anthropological topic.

This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

Explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time to the way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experience our lives. This book reflects on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past, and how far the structuring of social time is a human universal.

This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives.

From the social space of a cybercafe to cities in India, the UK and South Africa among others, this book features a wide range of ethnographic studies that offer different ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'.

Focuses on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. This book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions.

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork.

Explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. The book shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, and also examines the relation between creativity and the perception and passage of time.

Examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. This book theorizes the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations of a globalizing world.

Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world

Summarising current debates and offering new approaches for this expanding field of study, Thinking Through Tourism will appeal to students across a range of disciplines.

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been slower to repay the compliment. This volume argues for greater collaboration and highlights the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Essential reading for scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.

Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.